Master server alternative

I am making multiplayer networking game, I am using unity master server.
but it looks like it is for testing purpose and i don't need to go with busy server.

is there any 3d party company can support my master server?
any idea?
what is best solution?

 

Hi!

Actually I've got a master server writen in php up and running on a standard web environnement.
It's still in beta, I've started it last week.
From what I can see in the logs, it seems to work pretty well, and no one has complained about it.
It's writed in OO php for the framework CodeIgniter, works with only one table in a database so that it can run on any webserver.

I've done a NetMaster class that mimics the Master class from built in networking code (same functions, same parameters, start to work with a simple search replace)

That's to say that you can do easily your own master server in any langage...

If you want to, you can use my master server for free (using my NetMaster class). The only thing I want is that you send back to me any issues you and your customers will run into with it...
As long as you don't use too much traffic (for example 10 000 copies of the game, running servers and requesting list at the same time), I can help you with the hosting.

Or you can juste search the forum, I think there is some similar free code to do that...

 

I recently wrote an XML-RPC Master Server in Python.
It took me only a day to program a server supporting: Login, Stats, Clans, Messaging...

After setting up a home server running MySQL+Python, I just ran the script and was all set!
I then implemented the Client-side in Unity using this information: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7158530/unity3d-xml-rpc-and-c-sharp

I would strongly recommend using Python XML-RPC, rather than PHP (I tried both!).
The python code is way faster to implement and maintain. Here's a quick (working!) example to wet your appetite (P.S: This stupid forum doesn't show indentation properly...):

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. import _mysql
3. from SimpleXMLRPCServer import SimpleXMLRPCServer
4.  
5. # MySQL parameters
6. global auth_host, auth_user, auth_pwd, auth_db
7. auth_host = 'localhost'
8. auth_user = 'root'
9. auth_pwd = 'password'
10. auth_db = 'mydb'
11.  
12. # XMLRPC parameters
13. global xhost, xport
14. xhost = 'localhost'
15. xport = 1025
16.  
17. ###################
18. # Useful functions
19. def Process_Query(query):
20.     # Fail safe MySQL query, with auto-reconnection
21.     global auth_conn
22.     try:
23.         auth_conn.query(query)
24.     except:
25.         # Reconnect to MySQL, and try again
26.         auth_conn = _mysql.connect(auth_host, auth_user, auth_pwd, auth_db)
27.         auth_conn.query(query)
28.  
29.     # Fetch result
30.     result = auth_conn.use_result()
31.  
32.     # Return result rows
33.     if result is not None:
34.         rows = result.fetch_row(0)
35.         if len(rows) == 0:
36.             return None
37.         else:
38.             return rows
39.     else:
40.         return None
41.  
42.  
43. ##################
44. # Client Commands
45. def Client_Login(Username, Password):
46. #
47. # Username: string
48. # Password: string
49. #
50. # Output Dictionary: {
51. #                     'UID' : integer,
52. #                     'ClanID' : integer,
53. #
54.     data = {}
55.  
56.     # Find Client
57.     result = Process_Query('SELECT UID, clan_id FROM auth WHERE username="%s" AND password=MD5("%s")' % (Username, Password))
58.     if result is None:
59.         data['Error'] = 'Incorrect Username or Password! (%s:%s)\n' % (Username, Password)
60.         return data
61.  
62.     # Put info in dictionary
63.     data['UID'] = int(result[0][0])
64.     data['ClanID'] = int(result[0][1])    
65.     return data
66.  
67.  
68. ##################
69. # Initialize XML-RPC server            
70. xmlprc = XMLRPCServer((xhost, xport), requestHandler=RequestHandler)
71. xmlprc.register_function(Client_Login, "Client_Login")
72.  
73. # Start listening
74. print "Listening on port %i..." % (xport)
75. xmlprc.serve_forever()
76.  

 

i like the idea, especially i can run it in any web hosting, i will do some search

 

Use code tags for indentation. See advanced, when posting.

 

Ok, fixed it!